Africa/America

Nguva pfupi yadarika ndakave nemukana mukuru wekushanda nevamwe ve1,000 Mandela Washington Fellows, boka rakasarudzwa revatungamiriri vechidiki vemuAfrica vane makore 25-35 vakaiswa kwemavhiki matanhatu kumayunivhesiti makumi mana akatenderedza US. Vatungamiri vechidiki vari kuisa magetsi.

Mutambo wokuzarura, mavhiki akati apfuura, wairatidzira vamwe vevatambi vengoma vakanakisisa pasi rose—vaGhana—uye kugamuchirwa kwenguva dzose kunobva kuvakuru vakuru veyunivhesiti. Ipapo kwakauya kero yokuzarura nomumwe weboka repaPortland State University, murume muduku—asati atombosvika makore 30—aibva kuSierra Leone, Ansumana Bangura. Akanga ari mukomana ane makore 12 okukura apo vapanduki vakauya nokuda kwababa vake mukati mehondo yaityisa yama1990. Baba vake vaive kubasa saka vakadimbura ruoko rwerudyi rwemukomana.

Fungidzira uchiitirwa utsinye, uchigara munguva yehondo, uchidzingwa munyika yacho kuti ugare somupoteri akagurwa gumbo kwemakore mana, uye wodzorerwa kumusha nemhaka yokuti vagari vomunyika yacho vakangoerekana vaudzwa kuti “vagari vomuSierra Leone vose magandanga,” uye vapoteri vose vaifanira kutizazve. .

Ansu, anoshanda nevana vezvitangwena muFreetown (guta guru reSierra Leone) mutauri weruzhinji ane hungwaru, ane simba, ane mutsa, ane simba rekutaura rinobatana ipapo ipapo, achisimbisa kuwana kwakaenzana uye mukana wakaenzana kumwana wese. Iye ndiye tsananguro yekusimba, inova chiratidzo chezvakanakisa zveAfrica izvozvi.

The Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF) yakagadzira hukama hutsva hwakadzama paPortland State University uye, ini ndichabheja, pa mamwe ese anotambira mayunivhesiti akatenderedza US. Kupfuura izvozvo, ndakaona maFellows achigadzira hukama hwakadzama nevamwe vangu vekuPortlanders uye ini ndichabhejawo kuti nharaunda dzese dzinotambira dziri kubatsirwawo kubva kuhukama hutsva uhwu nevatungamiriri vechidiki vemuAfrica kubva kumatunhu ese epasi peSarharan Africa. Ndinoona sewechidiki wekuNigeria achitevera ruzivo rwemaitiro akanakisa edzimba dzinoyangarara, hunyanzvi hunovimbisa zororo rekugara munyika yake asi zvakare kutyisidzira kana zvikasadzorwa zvakanaka ("Ndizvo zvazvaita izvozvi," akandiudza). Uye mudiki mukuru wezvemamiriro ekunze anobva kuEthiopiya anodyidzana nevakuru vehurumende uye mapurofesa ezvemitemo nevashandi kutsvaga nzira nyowani dzeUS dzekufonera vatyairi vachiridza nhare pasi pekabhoni. Ane ese madhigirii esainzi uye ebudiriro uye anokweverwa kumuenzaniso wePortland munzvimbo dzakati wandei, sezviri kudzidza mamwe maMW Fellows kubva kune dzimwe nharaunda mhiri kweUS.

MWF yakakura kubva mukushanya kwakaitwa nemutungamiri wenyika VaObama kumushakabvu VaNelson Mandela kusingafungiri uye kwakatanga nevamwe mazana mashanu muna 500, zvimwe chetezvo muna 2014, ndokuwedzera kusvika pazana gore rino. Tinovimba kuti chirongwa ichi chicharuka hukama hwakakosha, hunogara hunobatsira, mumwe nemumwe uye nesangano, muhukama hwakananga, Africa neAmerica.

Kunyange iyi iri Dhipatimendi reHurumende-inotsigirwa-uye-akaita chirongwa chaObama, pane mukana wakanaka wekuti zvichaenderera mberi, zvichienderana nesarudzo dza2016. Mukuzvifarira kwedu kwakajekeswa, ndinovimba vanhu vekuAmerica vachaita sarudzo inozoguma nekuchinjana uku kunoramba kuchibatanidza vatungamiriri vari kusimukira veAfrica kubva mune zvematongerwo enyika kuenda kune zvezvivakwa kune zvekurima. rwezvemabhengi kudzidzo yekusimudzira simba uye nezvimwe zvakawanda kuAmerica. Mafungiro edu pamusoro peAfrica anowanzo shanduka patinosangana nevakadzi vechidiki nevarume vanoshanda murunyararo, kodzero dzevanhu, kodzero dzengochani uye transgender, kurima kwakasimba, kushandiswa kwesimba, uye sanganisa muAfrica huchenjeri uye matekinoroji ekare akasimba akasanganiswa neazvino hunyanzvi hwepamusoro.

Kuenderera mberi neMWF kuchave kwakanaka kune vanhu vemuAfrica uye kwakanaka kune vekuAmerica. Africa ikondinendi yakapfuma zvikuru neRussia, China, neAmerica dzose dziri kurwira chigaro chinofarirwa zvikuru nenyika zhinji dze54 dziri mukondinendinendi iyi - chirongwa ichi chinoenda kure mukusimbaradza hukama hune hutano, hwakanaka, uye hune runyararo izvo zvichabatsira vazhinji vekuAmerica. uye vaAfrica vakawanda. Pane chine chimwe zvingava tsitsi.